Kimura disease is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder commonly affecting young males. We present a 35year-old male who had right parotid region and neck swellings for two years. The patient underwent imaging studies, blood investigations, and fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnostic of the Kimura disease. The patient was screened for the presence of renal disorder. However, there was no evidence of kidney involvement. The patient was started on oral steroid therapy and advised for further follow-up.
The development of a prevertebral abscess due to an infected pancreatic pseudocyst and its spontaneous rupture into the oesophagus is a rare complication. We report a man who presented with odynophagia, dyspnoea and abdominal pain. Contrast-enhanced CT showed evidence of pancreatitis and a prevertebral space abscess communicating with the pancreas through the oesophageal hiatus. The patient was diagnosed to have a prevertebral abscess with chronic pancreatitis. Surgical drainage was planned, but the patient died of spontaneous drainage of the prevertebral abscess into the oesophagus and aspiration of the collection into the lungs.
Spontaneous rupture of a metastatic liver tumour is rarely documented in literature when compared to hepatocellular carcinoma and other liver lesions, especially from a lung primary. Here we report a case of ruptured liver metastasis from an adenocarcinoma of the lung mimicking ruptured liver abscess, challenging the clinical diagnosis. A 42-year-female presented in July 2020 with complaints of abdominal pain, breathlessness, fever. On examination, the patient was tachypneic with a right hypochondriac mass. A contrast-enhanced computed tomography of abdomen and thorax revealed an ill-defined heterogeneously enhancing lesion in the liver with a communicating subcapsular collection and hypo enhancing lesions in the left lobe and heterogeneously enhancing lesion in the left lung. Adenocarcinoma of the lung with hepatic metastasis was confirmed with a core needle biopsy. The patient was managed conservatively with intravenous antibiotics, intercostal drainage tube and Gefitinib. However, despite best efforts, the patient succumbed to the disease.
Keywords: Liver secondaries; Spontaneous rupture; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Thyroid transcription factor; Liver abscess.
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